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Star Formation Sputtering Out Across the Universe
The rate of star formation in the universe has dropped to just 3% of its long-ago peak, and there’s...
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NASA May Soon Announce New Human Moon Missions
NASA is serious about sending astronauts back to the moon’s neighborhood and will likely unveil its ambitious plans soon...
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‘Super-Earth’ Alien Planet May Be Habitable for Life
Astronomers have detected an alien planet that may be capable of supporting life as we know it — and...
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New Theory on Formation of Solar System’s First Stuff
A new view of the solar system’s early days proposes that the first two kinds of solid materials —...
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Curiosity Rover Gulps Mars Air, Finds Hint of Vanished Atmosphere
NASA’s Curiosity rover has gulped in Martian air but failed to find methane – a gas linked to living...
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Asteroid Belts Could Show Us Where Intelligent Life Is Hiding
If we want to find intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, it might be wise to look for stars...
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First Stars’ Light Seen Through Extragalactic Fog
Light from the very first stars in the universe has been measured – and there is less of it...
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NASA’s Fermi Helps Calculate Number of Stars in Universe
Astronomers have measured the background light from all the stars in the cosmos and inferred the number of stars...
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The Higgs, Boltzmann Brains, and Monkeys Typing Hamlet
Amir D. Aczel blogs about physics and cosmology for Discover’s Crux: If somebody told you that there are angels...
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Superbright Star Explosion Is Most Distant Known
A newly spotted ultra-bright star explosion burst onto the scene just 1.5 billion years after the big bang, making...